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- Stop implementing retry logic in every service. Put it in the gateway instead.
- api-management
- workflows
- resilience
When every team implements retry and fallback differently, you get inconsistent resilience and inconsistent error shapes. Here's the case for moving this logic to the gateway layer — and what it looks like in practice.
Read article - Request/Response Transformation Between Legacy and Modern APIs Using Visual Workflows
- workflows
- api-management
- legacy
Your modern clients shouldn't need to speak XML, camelCase field names shouldn't depend on backend conventions, and a legacy backend upgrade shouldn't be a client migration project. Here's how the gateway handles translation.
Read article - The Real Cost of Running 5 Tools Where One Platform Would Do
- enterprise
- roi
- platform
The license cost of each tool is the smallest number on the spreadsheet. The real costs are operational: five configs to maintain, five security reviews, five audit trails that don't talk to each other, five upgrade cycles, and an incident response process that crosses all of them.
Read article - Rate limits that protect upstreams—without punishing partners who did nothing wrong
- api-management
- reliability
- developer-experience
Fairness tiers, burst behavior, and gateway-level enforcement so one noisy client does not become everyone’s incident.
Read article - PSD3 is law in 2026. Your open banking API stack has a checklist to pass — does yours?
- open-banking
- compliance
- api-management
PSD3 and PSR formally agreed in late 2025, with adoption due Q1–Q2 2026. API performance is now an enforceable obligation. Here's what changes, and what your gateway needs to do about it.
Read article - Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection — And Your API Gateway Is the Defense
- security
- ai
- prompt-injection
Prompt injection doesn't need to breach your perimeter. An attacker embeds instructions in a document or API response and the agent acts on them using real credentials through a real access path. The API gateway is the enforcement point that can contain it.
Read article - Predictable Pricing for Unpredictable AI Traffic — Why Usage-Based Billing Breaks Enterprise Budgets
- enterprise
- pricing
- ai
A single misconfigured AI agent can generate thousands of API calls in minutes. Usage-based billing turns that into a five-figure surprise on next month's invoice. Enterprise API platforms need structured spending controls — not per-call billing with no ceiling.
Read article - Platform Automation with MCP: Let AI Manage Your API Catalog with the Same Permissions as Your Admin
- mcp
- ai
- platform
MCP isn't just for giving AI agents access to your APIs. It's also how you let AI assistants manage your API platform — create collections, update proxies, configure access — under the same RBAC your admin team uses.
Read article - Per-partner API controls: the feature your gateway probably doesn't have
- enterprise
- api-management
- developer-experience
B2B APIs need different catalogs, limits, and visibility per partner—not one global throttle. Here is why per-partner access matters and how to evaluate gateways against it.
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